erected by the acting Land Agent, and afterwards they prepared others more suitable for their use.

The remainder of the detachment from the third Division with the exception of one company, and including the Artillery, proceeded to Fort Fairfield, on the Aroostook, near the east line of the State, on letter D, first Range, sixty-two miles north from Houlton by the route taken, where temporary works had been throw up by the acting Land Agent, and where others were erected by the troops. The Fort here was furnished with two six and two four pounder field artillery. One company to guard a depot of provisions, was stationed at Fairbanks', at the west termination of the present road leading from Fort Fairfield to the Presque Isle of the Aroostook, on letter F, second Range, two miles from the post at the mouth of the last named river, and fourteen by way of the Aroostook and the mouth of the Presque Isle, from Fort Fairfield. A line of videttes was established with the Cavalry, from Bangor to Houlton, and from Mattawamkeag Point to township number Ten on the Aroostook road, which, in connexion with the mail and expresses from Bangor to Augusta, furnished daily and the most rapid communication between the Executive and the several detachments of the army.

The detachment from the second Division, composed of one company of Artillery, one company of Light Infantry, one company of Riflemen, and nine companies of Infantry, proceeded by way of Bangor and the Aroostook road, to township number Ten on that road at the junction of the St. Croix and Aroostook rivers, where it arrived on the fifteenth and sixteenth days of March, and occupied temporary works which had been erected by the Land Agent's force. The Artillery, which remained at this post, were

furnished with two four pounder field ordnance. This post is one hundred and thirty miles northerly from Bangor, and fifty-two by way of the Aroostook river west south west from Fort Fairfield. The troops immediately proceeded to erect suitable camps and other necessary buildings.

The proclamation of the Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick, before referred to, having directed a draft from the militia of that Province from the County of Carleton, to be held in readiness for actual service, it was deemed proper to station a small force on our eastern border, to observe the movements of the militia of that portion of the Province. Orders therefore issued February twentysecond, for calling into the service, from the seventh Division, four companies of Infantry and one company of Light Infantry, numbering with the officers three hundred and sixty-nine. This force assembled at Calais on the third and sixth days of March, and was comfortably quartered in that town. Major General Foster was placed in command of this post, with instructions to resist any attack which might be made by a military force from any foreign power, and to protect the eastern frontier as far north as the head waters of the St. Croix; and with discretionary authority to call into service an additional number of troops from his Division, should he have good reason to apprehend an attack from such superior force as might, in his opinion, justify a further call. He was also particularly charged to suffer no act of aggression to be committed against any foreign power by any part of the military force of the Division under his command.

A letter having been received by you from Sir John Harvey, dated February 18, 1839, in which he demanded an immediate withdrawal of the armed civil force then on

the Aroostook, and threatening to take military possession of the territory, unless the demand was complied with, and rumors of the arrival of British troops into the Province of New Brunswick from the West Indies, as well as the march of a Regiment from Canada towards our northeastern frontier, rendered it expedient in the opinion of the Executive to order an additional force to that border. Consequently General Orders issued on the twenty-seventh of February and on the first of March, calling into the public service from the fifth Division, two companies of Light Infantry and one company of Riflemen; and from the sixth Division, one company of Artillery, one company of Light Infantry, one company of Riflemen, and eight companies of Infantry, numbering, including officers, ten hundred and thirty-seven. These troops rendezvoused at Augusta on the sixth and seventh of March, where they remained in quarters until discharged. These orders also directed a detachment to rendezvous at Skowhegan on the twelfth of March, of one company of Artillery, one company of Light Infantry, and eight companies of Infantry, numbering, including officers, seven hundred and fortythree. The orders however, for the detachment from the eighth Division to rendezvous, were countermanded by orders of March eighth.

No attempt was made from the Province of New Brunswick, to enforce the jurisdiction of Great Britain over the territory of the Aroostook, or to disturb the military possession by the troops of Maine. On the twenty-third day of March, the Legislature resolved, that whenever the Governor should be fully satisfied, either by the declaration of the Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick, of otherwise, that he had abandoned all intention of occupying the disputed territory with a military force, and of attempt

ing the expulsion of those acting under the authority of Maine, that then, the exigency which called forth the militia having ceased, the Governor should be authorized to withdraw the troops, leaving the Land Agent with a sufficient posse, armed or unarmed, as the case might require, to carry into effect the Resolve of January twentyfourth.

Sir John Harvey, Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick, on the twenty-third day of March, concurred in a proposition made by Major General Scott, whereby he declared that it was not his intention, without new instructions from his government, to seek to take military possession of the disputed territory, or to seek by military force to expel therefrom the armed civil posse or the troops of Maine. Having received the beforenamed declaration of Sir John Harvey, on the twenty-fifth day of March, the exigency for calling the military force into the service of the State having ceased, and in pursuance of the authority given by the Resolve of March twenty-third, beforementioned, you directed, by General Orders of March twenty-fifth, that the troops on the northeastern frontier should make immediate preparation for their return from the Aroostook; and as soon thereafter as a suitable civil force should be organized under the Land Agent to enable him to protect the timber and other public property, to return to the City of Bangor, there to be discharged. On the same day orders were issued for the discharge of the troops stationed at Augusta, and they were accordingly discharged and paid on the twenty-sixth, twenty-seventh, twenty-eighth and twenty-ninth days of March. On the thirtieth of March orders issued directing one company of Light Infantry, one company of Riflemen, and two companies of Infantry to remain on the Aroostook waters,

until a sufficient civil force for the protection of the public property should arrive under the Land Agent; and that the military force, except the four companies named, should immediately return to Bangor.

On the fourth of April General Orders issued for the discharge of the companies stationed at Calais, and they were discharged and paid on the fifth.

On the eighth of April the two companies of Infantry left on the northeastern frontier, were ordered to return. to Bangor.

The troops, with the exception of the two Light Companies left at the Aroostook, arrived at Bangor without delay, and the several companies were discharged and paid from the thirteenth to the twenty-sixth of April.

The company of Light Infantry and the company of Riflemen, left at the Aroostook, having been relieved by the civil force under the Land Agent, returned to Bangor, where they arrived on the tenth day of May, and were discharged and paid on the eleventh and thirteenth days of that month.

The troops called into the public service at the several times beforementioned, numbered, including officers, three thousand three hundred and thirty-nine, and they were in service different periods, from twenty-one days, to two months and twenty-five days.

The amount paid by me as acting Quarter Master General and as acting Pay Master General, for the military expenses under the Resolves of February twentieth, up to the twentieth day of December instant, including the purchases by James L. Child, Esquire, in Boston, is two hundred twenty six thousand seven hundred sixty-three dollars and thirty-five cents. There are a few soldiers yet unpaid, and there are some other claims not yet settled,